Now in order to make the task more difficult simply give out only one hostname that all users will use in order to connect.
Most IRC networks do this already, an alias of irc.[networkname].net (or.org, or.com). However, the names (and addresses) for the individual servers are still available, and for good reason. Users want to connect to a server which is local (networkwise) to them. Sometimes a server may become disconnected from the network, and any users on that server will want to change to a server still connected to the network.
As long as IP is used, it will be impossible to prevent users from knowing the address of the servers anyway, so there is no benefit in even trying to hide them.
The FCC has set a target date of 2006 for switch off of NTSC signals. However, I predict that this will not happen. In the UK 405 Line VHF signals were made obsolete in 1969. The advantages of switching to 625 were obvious to the average consumer, namely colour, yet 405 line was still broadcast until 1985.
This is a Rush fabrication. There are some Canadians who are treated in the US. This is because they're living there at the time. We have a large class of retired people who spend winters in Florida, Nevada etc.
Canadian health care is better than the US on average, because we don't have a large underclass of people with no primary healthcare. It also costs about 1/3 as much, because emergency room healthcare (Which this underclass only has access to) costs the most.
Sorry, this method is useless, as it has no proof at all that the document existed at time of posting. You see, there is nothing which proves the envelope was sealed when it was posted.
I'm not bashing Lucas for his success. I'm bashing him for his failure. Phantom Menance was not as good as film as the previous three. It was disapointing to many people who saw the previous three. At that, it must be considered Lucas's failure.
Id have to disagree about "little or no REAL scifi". "2001" was in 1968, "Metropolis" in 1927, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" in 1951, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in 1956, "Planet of the Apes" also in 1968. All of these have to be considered classics.
Why are you assuming that finding life is the objective?
There are plenty of scientific goals which can be accomplished without ever expecting to find life. The current mars surveyer mission is giving a more detailed map of mars than we've ever had before and because of this we are learning about the planet, for example indications that it may be still volcanically active.
Can't you say that the program can only be distributed with GPLv2, and no other version? I see stuff in clause 9 which addresses version + any later, and where no version is given, but I see nothing which says that a newer version much be accepted.
Japan has a total population of 124,900,000, and an estimated 4,832,800 Christians. That's about 3% Christian. Doesn't sound terribly hard to be non-Shinto to me. In fact, this is probably bigger than any minority religion in the US.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~reed/hot/japan.html
There is no such thing as a "Normal" application. Unlike house builders, where each house is a variation on those which have gone before, applications, especially web applications, are always novel, with new features which have never been done before. Usually these new features are added at the request of marketing:-). Even if you're not introducing new technology, new languages, or some other twist, it is still impossible to estimate how long it will take to program a new application until you've actually done it. Some of the problems:
Who will program it. Different programmers have different levels of productivity. A good programmer can program 10 or 100 times faster than a average programmer, and a poor programmer can have negative productivity. Usually the delay between start of a project and actually doing it means that you don't know this when trying to estimate.
Changes in spec can result in code which has already been written having to be completely tossed, or alternativly rewritten totally. I've never been on a project which hasn't had a change in the spec at some point.
Most programmers have to maintain their existing code at the same time as developing new code. This both reduces the time available to work on the new code, it also makes the work on the new code less productive. You might spend an hour looking for a bug, then an hour on different code, then another hour looking for the bug, when it could have been 65 minutes looking for the bug without the interuption.
Sometimes the design is wrong. You spend 3 weeks coding up something, and then discover that the design is wrong. Perhaps you discover that the software you're interfacing to doesn't follow the protocol correctly. Perhaps you discover that you've missed a major use case. Perhaps you just plain made a mistake in the design. This results in a change to the spec. See point 2.
Management's response to problems 1-4. This is usually to call a meeting to discuss why it's slipping (See point 3), and sometimes (usually near the end of the project) to throw more people at the problem (See mythical man month). Projects need to be resourced correctly from the start.
I think the only solution is to wait until the project is in the final stages before releasing any dates.
There are much worse algrorythm scalings than O(n^2). A trivial one would be O(n^n). At 100 items a O(n^2) would have increased by 10^4 times, while a O(n^n) would have increased by 10^200.
The military phone system uses them to assign priorities to calls. The are used for 'PRIORITY', 'IMMEDIATE', 'FLASH' and 'FLASH OVERRIDE'. If none of them is pressed, then it's a 'ROUTINE' call. In the event of the system becoming saturated, calls are dropped in order of priority, so all ROUTINE's first, then up the chain until the system is no longer saturated. There is lots on the web which you can find if you use the priorities, here is one
There are enough valid numbers to allocate about 15 numbers to every person currently alive in the NANP. That's without any expansion in the number of valid numbers.
The problems with the NANP are due to overallocation in large cities. Any CLEC who wishes to compete in a rate centre needs an entire prefix. They get 500 customers, and that means 9500 numbers wasted. In the typical large american city, with many rate centres, and many CLECs, this means that the area code become exhaused.
Many locations have started conservation measures, either consolidation of rate centres, or allocation of sub prefix blocks to CLECs.
The majority of places I'm aware of which had variable length numbers are moving towards fixed length numbers. The value of knowing if a number has the correct number of digits is greater than the value of variable lenght codes.
No, the driver is that BT is totally clueless, mismanaged the number space for decades, and then handed the mess over to the totally spineless Oftel. There is no shortage of number space in the STD codes. A typical small town of 80k people with one STD code can have a theoretical 800k local numbers = enough for 10 each. There are some area codes with a population of less than 20,000. The big cities, with 3 digit + selector codes have almost 8M possible codes.
The problem is that they were running out of STD codes to assign, and the cell phone & premium service calls were wanting new codes.
They should have solved it by:
Not splitting up the STD codes by provider. There is no reason at all that C&W need to have 0500 for free calls, while BT had 0800. This would have halfed the requirements for special area codes.
Retreiving the least used area codes, and merging those areas into neighbouring areas, for example 01595 (Shetlands)
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You mean giving legal advice when paid to do so. Anyone can give anyone free advice. Of course, anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Most IRC networks do this already, an alias of irc.[networkname].net (or .org, or .com). However, the names (and addresses) for the individual servers are still available, and for good reason. Users want to connect to a server which is local (networkwise) to them. Sometimes a server may become disconnected from the network, and any users on that server will want to change to a server still connected to the network.
As long as IP is used, it will be impossible to prevent users from knowing the address of the servers anyway, so there is no benefit in even trying to hide them.
The FCC has set a target date of 2006 for switch off of NTSC signals. However, I predict that this will not happen. In the UK 405 Line VHF signals were made obsolete in 1969. The advantages of switching to 625 were obvious to the average consumer, namely colour, yet 405 line was still broadcast until 1985.
Canadian health care is better than the US on average, because we don't have a large underclass of people with no primary healthcare. It also costs about 1/3 as much, because emergency room healthcare (Which this underclass only has access to) costs the most.
Some Americans did. However, there was a class of americans who had their freedoms restricted based upon their ethnic origins.
Sorry, this method is useless, as it has no proof at all that the document existed at time of posting. You see, there is nothing which proves the envelope was sealed when it was posted.
Assembly and machine code are synonyms.
I'm not bashing Lucas for his success. I'm bashing him for his failure. Phantom Menance was not as good as film as the previous three. It was disapointing to many people who saw the previous three. At that, it must be considered Lucas's failure.
Most of it wasn't written by Lucas either, Leigh Brackettdid most of it.
Id have to disagree about "little or no REAL scifi". "2001" was in 1968, "Metropolis" in 1927, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" in 1951, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in 1956, "Planet of the Apes" also in 1968. All of these have to be considered classics.
Yes, they do. That's why every car with airbags has a permantantly attached label with the user instructions.
There are plenty of scientific goals which can be accomplished without ever expecting to find life. The current mars surveyer mission is giving a more detailed map of mars than we've ever had before and because of this we are learning about the planet, for example indications that it may be still volcanically active.
Can't you say that the program can only be distributed with GPLv2, and no other version? I see stuff in clause 9 which addresses version + any later, and where no version is given, but I see nothing which says that a newer version much be accepted.
Japan has a total population of 124,900,000, and an estimated 4,832,800 Christians. That's about 3% Christian. Doesn't sound terribly hard to be non-Shinto to me. In fact, this is probably bigger than any minority religion in the US. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~reed/hot/japan.html
This is going back to the early days of television, when the sponsor of a program had advertising included in the program.
I think the only solution is to wait until the project is in the final stages before releasing any dates.
When has Oftel ever done anything constructive about any mess?
There are much worse algrorythm scalings than O(n^2). A trivial one would be O(n^n). At 100 items a O(n^2) would have increased by 10^4 times, while a O(n^n) would have increased by 10^200.
Trade marks are to prevent confusion in trade, not to protect you against other people doing stuff you don't like.
Or for geographically small area codes, for example New York has 13 area codes.
The military phone system uses them to assign priorities to calls. The are used for 'PRIORITY', 'IMMEDIATE', 'FLASH' and 'FLASH OVERRIDE'. If none of them is pressed, then it's a 'ROUTINE' call. In the event of the system becoming saturated, calls are dropped in order of priority, so all ROUTINE's first, then up the chain until the system is no longer saturated. There is lots on the web which you can find if you use the priorities, here is one
New York is the only area to do this. The FCC issued a ruling against it shortly afterwards.
The problems with the NANP are due to overallocation in large cities. Any CLEC who wishes to compete in a rate centre needs an entire prefix. They get 500 customers, and that means 9500 numbers wasted. In the typical large american city, with many rate centres, and many CLECs, this means that the area code become exhaused.
Many locations have started conservation measures, either consolidation of rate centres, or allocation of sub prefix blocks to CLECs.
The majority of places I'm aware of which had variable length numbers are moving towards fixed length numbers. The value of knowing if a number has the correct number of digits is greater than the value of variable lenght codes.
The problem is that they were running out of STD codes to assign, and the cell phone & premium service calls were wanting new codes.
They should have solved it by: